 | Art - 1799 - 616 pages
...,a very tender heart — yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a fchbol, having run in debt, on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parents of her fcaolars had not raifed a fubfcription for her. Her Ion had too much fentiment to have any feeling.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Anecdotes - 1800 - 310 pages
...very tender heart — yet I know, from indubitable au^ thority, that his mother, who kept a fchool, having. run in debt, on account of an extravagant...daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parents of her fcholars had not raifed a fubfcription for her. Her fon had too much fentiment to have any feeling.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Anecdotes - 1800 - 302 pages
...tender heart—yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a fchool, having rxtn in debt, on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parents of her fcholars had not raifed a fubfcription for her. Her fon had too much fentiment to have any feeling.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1800 - 490 pages
...heart; yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a (chool, having run in debt.oa account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parent! of her Icholars had not raifed a Cubfcription for her. Her fon bad mo much fentiment to have... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1803 - 266 pages
...of a very tender heart — yet I know from indubitable authority, that his mother who kept a fchool, having run in debt, on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parents of her I'cholars had not raifed a fubfcription for her. Her fon had too much fentiment to have any feeling.... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...says Horuie Walpole, " from indubitable authority, that Sterne's Mother, who kept a School, h*vin» run in debt on account of an extravagant daughter,...her Scholars had not raised a subscription for her." •f If my Readers revert to nome lines in the introductory . ••• 198 HYPOCRISY. Shall change... | |
 | England - 1865 - 808 pages
...it seems, to a conversation between Horace Waipole and Mr Pinkerton. "I know," said Walpole, "from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a...account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in a jail, if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her. Her own son," he adds,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1819 - 350 pages
...of a bad one. One would imagine that Sterne had been a man of a very tender heart; yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a...ass was more important to him than a living mother. U'lAVI. SINGULAR TITLE. ONE of the most singular titles I know is the French house D'O. This family... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...bad one; One would imagine that Sterne had been a man of a very, tender heart — yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a...was more important to him than a living mother."* Yet this is the man who inculcates the principles of universal philanthropy ; the man who pretends... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 464 pages
...of a bad one. One would imagine that Sterne had been a man of a very tender heart j yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a...ass was more important to him than a living mother. CCIXVI. SINGULAR TITLE. ONE of the most singular titles I know is the French house D'O. This family... | |
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CCLXV. SENTIMENT. WHAT is called sentimental writing, though it be understood to appeal solely to the heart, may be the product of a bad one. One would imagine that Sterne had been a man of a very tender heart; yet I know, from indubitable authority,... 
